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Visual Needs

Introduction

The project may be driven by business benefits other than energy savings by providing increased performance and flexibility:

• Adapt the lighting for multiple uses of a space, such as a conference room or gymnasium.
• Adapt the lighting to evolving space needs resulting from employee churn and office strategies such as hoteling and hot-desking.
• Mood-setting for restaurants and similar applications.
• Increasing worker satisfaction by providing personal control of their lighting systems in office and other environments.
• Enhanced aesthetics and image, greater space marketability, and pollution prevention.
• Just because it looks great. Though the best effects are driven by the one of most flexible and energy efficient lighting devices available.

These business benefits are often more difficult to calculate than energy savings, but can tangibly contribute to the bottom line.

Productivity

Studies, for example, have shown that personal lighting control can increase worker satisfaction, a major contributor to productivity, while providing energy savings.

According to the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), energy costs run about $2/sq.ft. in a typical commercial building while worker salaries and benefits can run to $130/sq.ft. or more.

While reducing energy costs by a large percentage can be profitable, increasing productivity by even a very small percentage can be much more profitable.

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